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Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois
I certainly do not have any expertise in this area, but it sometimes seems like they portray the 'stabbing through a skull' bit as a little too easy. I would think it would take a wrist-spraining amount of force to get a knife blade through a skull bone. Perhaps the bones get a little more brittle as they walk around dead.
Any of our resident hunters or mass murderers care to comment?
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. . . or military historians.
There are plenty of instances in the past of people who have gotten knives, swords or other pointy things through the skull. Francisco Pizarro, for example, received several of these from swords in his last few seconds on Earth; they had no problem penetrating the skull, and a knife stabbing downward can deliver a lot more force in a thrust than a rapier can stabbing forward. The upshot is that knives can definitely do penetrate even a full-strength human skull, and they often have.
Incidentally, I've seen people wonder if slashing towards can bisect a skull as well. They also can, but not necessarily from the characters in the show. Thomas a Becket's head was cut right in half with a swing of a sword, albeit from a Crusader knight, who would probably have more upper body strength (not to mention skill with a sword) than anyone you've ever met in your entire modern life. So, can someone use a machete to cut a zombie head in half? Yes. Can short, thin, non-muscularly-developed pizza-delivery-boy Glen? Considerably less likely.